Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force
English | February 19, 2020 | ISBN: 1682474933 | EPUB | 256 pages | 3 MB

Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the US Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in the United States and their equally swift demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Air Force and the missile community. David W. Bath contends that the struggle to create and control nuclear ballistic missiles threatened both the dominance of the United States during an intensifying Cold War and the strategic airpower mission of the newly created Air Force.